- Cato the Elder - Wikipedia

This Ancient Roman Soldier Won the Equivalent of the Medal of Honor 6 Times

This is an image of Marcus Porcius Cato, AKA Cato the Elder. The long-lived Cato was the subject of Cicero's treatise On Old Age. Cato is known for ending every speech in the Forum with the words Delenda est Cartago-Carthage must be destroyed!

Cata the Elder Carthage must be destroyed. (Cato the Elder said this in (Ancient Carthage would now be a suburb of Tunis in Tunisia.

The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. The main cause of the Punic Wars was the conflicts of interest between the existing Carthaginian Empire and the expanding Roman Republic.